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No problem at all with periodically do a manual check, that's easily done in a variety of ways, but a small warning that pops up when disc space is like, below 500 Mb would be much useful and would prevent unwanted data loss

I'm back home, so I did a little more googling.. and found just what I wanted!! This is exactly what I was about to try to make myself, it would have been my first attempt on scripting on linux.. oh well, another time

The script will check the free disk space in “/dev/sda1″. It will show a pop-up message for 30 seconds when the free space is below 100MB. If the free space is below 50MB, it will show a pop-up message for 5 minutes. You should modify these parameters to your own requirement.

By the way Ive never seen a warning message on my main system mainly because my hdd is not near full, while running on LM 6 Felicia KDE live dvd, I have seen a warning message at least twice due to the fact that its running on ram. It was after installing some program with the live dvd that was too big to fit in the ram space

Oh well, what can I say? I was experimenting!

My guess is this warning message script may already be installed out of the box perhaps???

The system can warn you but you have to configure it. The command, df- -h will show you how much disk space is used and available and give you a percentage of free space. Run the command before and after downloads.

You should also create partitions for downloads so that if that partition fills up the system won't crash. Check /tmp and /var/log for huge files and either delete them (rm -rf) or zero them out, >filename

Hi :To all , that was very enlightening. I had the same problem with my version of Mint4. When I put it to the Great Mint Forum, The reply was " reset your partition in your Hard Drive that relates to that specific situation.When I accessed my partition ,I was surprised to find only 100Mb. free, so, I edited the partition to a few more Gb.'sand that fixed the problem.Once again ,thanks to the Great Forum Members,cato40

I had a low disc warning several days ago. Couldn't work it out, had over 100gig free in home, and root was fine. Finally deduced it was complaining one of my storag drives was near full, so moved some of it's content to the other 1TB drive, evened them out. *shrug*

Jerther wrote:My girlfriend's laptop started doing strange things and crashing programs until I read one of the crashed program error: Disc is full, but that was after she lost all her torrents in Deluge...

So I did a little clean up and everything is back to normal. But besides the error message, she claims seeing no warning of low disc space.

Isn't Mint (or any OS at all) supposed to warn when system disc is becoming low?

Jerther, I know Windows does have, or had in older editions, a Low Disk Warning. I'm thinking any system should have it as a failsafe against crashes and data loss.......Ever since hard drives went so big and so cheap I never had to worry about running out of disk space.My advice is not to store torrent stuff onto the system-home partition but to set a partition for data only. Also periodically move stuff from PC to external media (USB external HDD or even DVD)

Maybe people could just pay attention to how much free space is available on their drives, and how quickly they're filling them up.

If you accept - and I do - that freedom of speech is important, then you are going to have to defend the indefensible. That means you are going to be defending the right of people to read, or to write, or to say, what you don't say or like or want said.

Just tried ripping a bunch of dvds earlier, and got a complaint about low disc space, as was running out of room for completed jobs on laptop drive. Mint 9. So, it appears we DO get such warnings.

If you accept - and I do - that freedom of speech is important, then you are going to have to defend the indefensible. That means you are going to be defending the right of people to read, or to write, or to say, what you don't say or like or want said.

Here's a little advice I have. I don't know how technically sound it is, but just hear me out.

If you get a low disk space warning, and it doesn't make sense or the evidence says otherwise, back your files the heck up immediately and don't turn off your computer!

Last time this happened to me I didn't back up my files, and when I turned my computer back on it wouldn't boot. My drive was corrupted and I couldn't practically get anything back. Backing up is a good precaution.

Mozenrath wrote:Here's a little advice I have. I don't know how technically sound it is, but just hear me out.

If you get a low disk space warning, and it doesn't make sense or the evidence says otherwise, back your files the heck up immediately and don't turn off your computer!

Last time this happened to me I didn't back up my files, and when I turned my computer back on it wouldn't boot. My drive was corrupted and I couldn't practically get anything back. Backing up is a good precaution.

i have installed mint 9 inside windows using 25 gb and the host drive even says there is 1 tb or more available space but inside my home folder it sais 50 kb only available (everything is slow like this is really the case)

but how can i solve this with very little steps as this is important also you can get your data back using get data back for ntfs for example use google for this (you must install xp or vista 1st to get this goin but it will work).

Jerther wrote:... But besides the error message, she claims seeing no warning of low disc space.

Isn't Mint (or any OS at all) supposed to warn when system disc is becoming low?

The "Low Disk Space" warning surely works on my Mint 9 OS.But there is a square one can click on, with the text: "Don't show any warnings again".Maybe somebody clicked on this, so you just would have to find out how to activate this warning again.